10/6/11 (Marjorie to Laura)

postmarked from:
Miss Marjorie Wells
Wilkshire-on-the-Bog
Shropshire
England

postmarked to:
Miss Laura Dawson
NY, New York
USA

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Dear Miss Dawson,

Thank you for your kind letter. I'm sure it was good of you to be frank with a country girl like me. Of course we must remember that country girls in time become country wives, and what is it exactly that city actresses become?

I must say, though, Miss Dawson, I truly loved your performance in Much Ado About Nothing in London several summers ago. Your Hero was the very embodiment of chaste virtue.

Therefore I was delighted that you had made aquaintance of my Conrad. Although I have to wonder if he really shared our private correspondancewith a stage actress he'd only just met - no offense, Miss Dawson. It has crossed my mind that perhaps you simply stumbled across the information. If that you should stumble upon a bit more: What are the names of those buisnessmen? What do you know about William Treabeau?

Thanks awfully for taking an interest in my poor little love affair. I'm sure it, and Conrad, must seem ever so dull to you, but of course he's all the world to me.

Yours truthfully,
Miss Marjorie Wells